Roman Týc

VJing as a discipline of art could rise in the late 1990s due to descending prices of video projectors which had been too pricey until then.

What has started as just a devotee idea turned lately in a respectful project that has brought back prematurely lost techniques of video art.

His invasive way of entering places that let him represent his thought and attitudes implies his consideration of the fact that public space may not even exist at all.

After being forced by a rescuer to leave his float after he sailed under the Charles Bridge, he reflects his experience in a short poetic movie "I River".

From May to September 2004, his cow named "Romeo 23" painted with a military green and with a red star and number 23 on its side was placed on Kinske square in Prague.

They published their statement later placing it on the cow, including the letter from Mr. Klaus, president of Czech Republic who supported them.

The cow ended up being bought by MPs Jan Mládek (socialists) and Jiří Dolejš (communists) at a beneficent auction.

The pissing, shitting, drinking, lying, sitting, committing suicide with a gun, hanged, one legged, mother with a child characters were seen on traffic lights on zebra crossings in Prague.

On the day of the verdict Týc appeared in Czech TV newscast (CT 24) saying that he preferred imprisonment over the penalty.

David Hons, signed as Roman Týc, in his second open letter stated he saw his act neither as a crime nor an offense but an unselfish project that enriched a society in its time.

Týc was among artists that took part in Museo Maxxi Czech art installation in 2015 in Rome, Italy.

According to Týc, this had a double meaning referring both to the mere illegal existence of the gun as well as to the acts committed by it.